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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
International Criminal Police Organization recently confiscated $6.65 million worth of counterfeit HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis drugs in Southeast Asia and made 27 arrests as part of a five-mont...
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
A young woman and her child standing next to the leftover of her home which was burnt down by the Kampot province authority on 17 November 2005 (Photo: Courtesy of Hallam Goad)
Original report from Phnom Penh
18 November 2008
Security forces, including police and military, continued forced evictions in Kampot province for a second day Tuesday, following the injuries of at least three villagers Monday.
The authorities destroyed an estimated 230 small homes in Ta Ken commune, Chhouk district, in two days of operations to oust residents from a national park, officials said.
Soldiers and police on Monday beat seven people, striking them with rifle butts and sending three to the Kampong Speu provincial hospital, villagers said.
Touch Sambath, a doctor at the hospital, confirmed the arrival of three patients Monday night, one of them seriously hurt with strikes to his eyebrow and head. All three patients remained in the hospital Tuesday, he said.
"The villagers attacked the armed forces first" with axes and machetes, said Kampot Governor Nam Set. None of the armed forces were injured, he said.
A land dispute between the villagers in the commune and provincial environment officials has continued since September, with authorities claiming that 306 families are occupying protected land.
Villagers say many of them have lived on the land since 2000, and they suspect the land is now being re-distributed to a private company for residential development.
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
MONTREAL, Nov. 18 /CNW Telbec/ - Reporters Without Borders condemns the Thai information ministry's decision at the start of the month to spend up to 12 million euros on creating an Internet firewal...
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Nov 18, 2008 The AIDS Healthcare Foundation in Cambodia last week launched the first phase of a program that aims to test 10,000 people in the country for HIV, the Phnom Penh Post reports. The campaign is part of an AHF program to test one million people worldwide for HIV by World AIDS Day on Dec. 1. Mam Sophal, president of the HIV/AIDS program at the Municipal Health Department in the capital of Phnom Penh, said that 579 people have been tested so far. Chhim Sarath, country program manager for AHF Cambodia, said HIV testing is "very important," and that people who test positive are provided with counseling, prevention education and care services. Sophal said that positive responses from people being tested eased his initial concerns that the campaign would not be successful. "I thought people would be afraid of the results and would not join the program, but when it started, people came to the test with smiles on their faces," he said.
Sarath said that the campaign is an "opportunity to reach people and teach them about HIV/AIDS," adding that an estimated 1,000 people daily were educated through the campaign during a recent festival. The testing campaign also will expand to eight provinces in Cambodia. Government statistics show that HIV prevalence in the country among people ages 15 to 49 has decreased from 1.9% in 2003 to 0.9% in 2007, the Post reports. AHF officials say that HIV/AIDS has spread from high-risk groups such as injection drug users and commercial sex workers to the general population (Shay/Chakrya, Phnom Penh Post, 11/14).
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Pattani: Suspected militants shot dead a Muslim and two Buddhists in two separate incidents in Thailand's far south, police said on Tuesday, the latest violence in a five-year separatist rebellion. Th...
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
PHNOM PENH - A newly developed Cambodian high-yielding hybrid rice variety will be presented in Kampong Thom province on Monday to interest investors in large-scale cultivation, national media said on...
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Suspected separatist rebels shot dead seven people including two women in attacks across southern Thailand, police said Tuesday, as violence spiraled in the Muslim-majority region. Two men were shot d...
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A young woman and her child standing next to the leftover of her home which was burnt down by the Kampot province authority on 17 November 2005 (Photo: Courtesy of Hallam Goad)